Novel plastid gene minicircles in the dinoflagellate Amphidinium operculatum

Gene

Volumn 331, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 141-147

  Ellen, R ^a   Nisbet, R ^a   Koumandou, V Lila ^a   Barbrook, Adrian C ^a   Howe, Christopher J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Base pair; bp; Chloroplast; Episome; Genome fragmentation; Integron; kb; Kilobase pair; Microcircle; Plasmid; Ribosomal RNA; rRNA; Transfer RNA; tRNA

Indexed keywords

RNA;

AMPHIDINIUM OPERCULATUM; ARTICLE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DINOFLAGELLATE; DNA REPLICATION; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENOME; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASTID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSAB GENE; PSBD GENE; PSBE GENE; PSBI GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DINOFLAGELLIDA; DNA, CIRCULAR; DNA, PROTOZOAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOTOSYSTEM I PROTEIN COMPLEX; PHOTOSYSTEM II PROTEIN COMPLEX; PLASTIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

AMPHIDINIUM; AMPHIDINIUM OPERCULATUM; DINOPHYCEAE;

EID: 11144331773     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2004.02.008     Document Type: Article

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